Blue Phenix Sr. on an Aerotech K375NW-P

Tony McCrea's Blue Phenix Sr. Custom Blue Tube kit from Always Ready Rocketry with extended booster and tailcone. He bagged his Level 2 certification on the ever popular Aerotech J350 and then followed that right up with the very rare and unique Karl E. Baumann signature Aerotech K375NW-P motor! That reload is for the 54/2560 case and features a dual thrust profile with 5 grains of propellant. The bottom grain is a Warp-9 grain and the top four are classic White Lightning. The result is a 300 lb thrust spike for 0.7 seconds followed up with about 4 seconds of long burn smoke and fire. Very very cool.. The rocket went 7,400 feet and almost 800 mph breaking Mach 1 easily. Recovery was in the field. Congratulations Tony!!

P.S. Video is "ok" but sound is awesome.. What a hammer! off the pad!

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Aerotech
• Blue
• Tube
• high
• power
• rocket
• Level
• certification
• Warp
• Phenix
• K375

[rejma0415]

I dunno, but I'd sure like to try! :) Here was the flight data from Tony:

7350 agl, 22 sec to agl, 1170 ft/sec = 797.723 mph = Mach 1.048

[Mysticlambo]

if bluetube 2.0 can handle the 1200NS jolt from the warp9 grain in this motor, i bet it can handle a K1275R and maybe even Kosdons K1750R . Nice flight to Tony, Happy flyin to all!

-Ryan C